Wednesday, July 14, 2010

“Philosophy change on athletic participation” plus 3 more

“Philosophy change on athletic participation” plus 3 more

Philosophy change on athletic participation

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 02:02 AM PDT


Dr. Wallace: I enjoy reading your column, even though I don't agree with your responses on many occasions. You always say that a girl should not be permitted to participate on an all-boys team, even if she happened to be better than some or all of the boys.

Do other girls besides me write to you disagreeing with your outdated philosophy about participation in high school sports? Will you ever enter the 21st century, regarding judging people by their athletic prowess, not their sex? -- Nameless, Louisville, Ky.

Nameless: I will admit that I'm starting to realize we are now in the 21st century. I receive letters every week from young women who disagree with my stand on athletics -- that girls should compete against girls and boys against boys. Pay attention, because I'm about to change my mind!

I now believe if a particular sport is only offered for one sex, a member of the opposite sex should be permitted to try out for that team. Since football and wrestling do not offer teams for girls, then if a girl is good enough athletically, she should be allowed to join the team. If a school offers a sport only to girls (field hockey, for instance), then boys interested in this sport should be allowed to try out for the team. But there should be no crossover with, for instance, boys' baseball and girls' softball.

As a former head basketball coach, I am a member of the Old School Coaches Association, so it was very difficult for me to write my response to your letter. But now that it's finished, I feel a lot better -- and younger!

However, I'm sure I'll miss the letters from young women telling me that my philosophy on athletic participation is over the hill, ancient, outdated, sexist, old-fashioned and out of touch with reality.

Dr. Wallace: Last week, I won a new motorbike at a dance contest. I was told by the disc jockey that the bike is worth more than $1,000. I'm not really a bike fan, but I want to keep it and learn how to ride it. I'm 15 and have lots of time to learn.

My problem is my parents will not allow me to keep the bike and my father wants me to sell it to someone who works with him for $500. I'll get to keep the $500, but I really want the bike. Can you give me a few hints -- fast? -- Jared, Santa Fe, N.M.

Jared: Since your parents refuse to allow you to keep the bike, you don't have any chance of riding it, so selling it is the only option available. But since the bike is worth $1,000, I wouldn't sell it for $500.

Why not try to sell it for at least $750 online and also put an ad in your local newspaper for $750? Make sure the ad says that the bike is brand-new and worth more than $1,000.

Of course, your father has the final say.

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“Philosophy of the glass frog”

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 03:34 AM PDT

VietNamNet Bridge - That's the title of the third exhibition by a Vietnamese French girl named Sandrine Llouquet in HCM City, after "My God" in 2005 and "Milk" in 2008.

 

 

According to Llouquet, the glass frog is a creature with transparent skin that allows you to see its internal system. The metaphor of glass frogs is that everyone wishes others to see the best inside them. but a glass frog doesn't have that choice.

 

The exhibition displays three, large-sized installation works and 16 paintings and mica statues. Themes like hiding, disguising, invisibility and transparency are featured at the exhibition.

 

Her show exhibition opened on July 8 and will close until August 21 at Quynh Gallery, 65 De Tham, District 1, HCM City.

 

Sandrine is a French-Vietnamese visual artist based in Ho Chi Minh City since 2005.

 


She obtained her Fine Arts graduation in 1999 after studying one year at the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Art University and five years at the National Superior Fine Art School of Nice (Villa Arson, Nice, France).


Her works has been exhibited in numerous contemporary art spaces in Europe, Asia and North America.


Since 2000, parallel to her artistic career, she has been publishing catalogs and magazines, and organizing cultural events and workshops with Bertrand Peret and their collective Wonderful District.


Sandrine also works as a VJ and illustrator under the names of "Discocactus" and "Miss Thao".

 

 

 

 

 

PV

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Hamlet’s BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 04:26 PM PDT

1. First there was the epiphany. After ending a cell-phone conversation with his mother (while he was driving—tsk, tsk) he experienced a surreal sensation, in his words, a "feeling of time out of time" (page 23). After hanging up and a few minutes of quiet contemplation, he says he was suddenly able to draw up memories and develop an even stronger connection to her, all because of a few seconds on his "clamshell-style phone." After that, he began to semiworship his phone and simultaneously to vow to recognize the depth that technology can add to human experience. Despite his epiphany, Powers has come to the realization that being connected all the time also hurts us.
 
2. To predict the future, Powers goes backward. He examines the way seven philosophers—from Plato to Marshall McLuhan—employed the technology they had at hand. Though it feels like a stretch to compare Henry David Thoreau's telegrams to today's e-mails, Powers makes an engrossing case for why the paranoia surrounding new technology is overblown, and why it's really our responsibility to find depth and distance from these technologies to preserve our sanity.
 
3. Product placement? Powers obsesses about his "slender," "fuzzy, and faintly warm" Moleskine notebooks. He says it's about the magic of paper (page 138), but it's uncomfortably overplayed. Let's see if his term "Moleskine-ophilia" catches on.
 
4. Wait, Hamlet didn't have a BlackBerry! William Shakespeare actually used a writing table, one that needed a sponge and water. Regardless, Powers speculates that if Hamlet were less distracted, the play might have ended differently (page 155). Umm, probably not, actually. It was meant to be a tragedy.

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Author Presents His Theology and Philosophy in New Xulon Title

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 12:00 AM PDT
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